Chapter - 24 The Shot
1177 Words
I stand infront of the mirror in a black dress that hugs my body perfect, accentuate my curve. It has a deep neckline and I pair it with some gold accessories. I am glad I bought this dress, thanks to my friends that gave me this dare, otherwise, such bold clothes are not my style. I apply some red lipstick and then dab my lips on the tissue. I see the red colour seeping on the napkin and suddenly I remember how Savannah’s blood seeped on the white linen of the hospital.
I ball up the napkin and throw in the dustbin. Her death has somehow managed to remind me of the death of Miss Gina, I feel very disturbed. Killing a woman who is carrying a baby is not a crime, it’s a sin and I want to kill that sinner.
I shake my head; this is a night I am supposed to enjoy and from tomorrow I am going to find the killer of my dad and Savannah.
I do the remaining touch up of my makeup and look at myself last time in the mirror and then walk out. I get a cab and within minutes I am standing outside James’s restaurant.
I push open the glass door and I see people dancing, red, green blue lighting shining across people’s body illuminating their skins and frequently producing a sparkle from their over shiny dresses.
Suddenly, I start feeling self-conscious, my clothes are revealing but probably not par with crowd of girls here. They have heavy makeup and beautiful bouncy hair; it is hard to stay confident.
My brain for a second tells me to turn back and leave but James approaches me,
“Hey Luna, damn you look amazing common in”
I smile hesitantly and step inside. My eyes start searching for Hiram in the crowd.
James leads me to the bar,
“Luna, can I get you a drink?”
“Sure. Thanks. Amazing party.”
James smiles, “Hiram did most of the stuff, but thanks.”
The bartender hands me the drink, James hops off the stool he was sitting on,
“Luna, I have some guest I have to greet them, will you be okay here?”
I nod, “yeah”
I start scanning the crowd to search for Hiram, I can’t see him anywhere. I move away from the bar in hopes to find. I start to walk towards the kitchen hoping he would be there. When I see Hiram surrounded by three ladies, all laughing, being flirty and touching him. I stand there dumbfounded, I wanted to gag and then bang his head against the wall, but instead I turn around on my heels and go back to the bar.
Just as I settle down, a man sits opposite me, he smiles and says,
“Hi”
“Hello”, I reply.
Finally, I will have a normal conversation.
“What’s your na”, I start to say when he interrupts me,
“You are very sexy will you spend the night with me, or we could do it in the kitchen too”
There goes the normal conversation, I don’t want to create a scene,
“I am flattered, but no I am not interested”, I reply politely.
“OH, common don’t play hard to get, you will have a good time”, he insists and I resist the urge to punch him.
“No. Thanks.”, I say with more emphasis. He stands up and grabs me by my hand and I push away.
“You might want to behave mister I am a police officer”, I say and he starts laughing,
“You should have told me earlier darling, so you are into role-playing, it’s fine you can be the police I will be the prisoner and you can punish me for being nauuughtyyyyy”
I want to smack my head and then his. He steps forward to grab me by my waist and I get to swing a punch and kick at me when suddenly the next moment he is thrown away to a corner.
I look at him wincing and when I turn back, I see Hiram, my blood boils.
“What the hell did you just do”, I yell.
He looks shocked but replies,
“Helped you, I could clearly see you were not interested in him. You are welcome by the way.”
“First, I DON’T NEED YOUR HELP and second How did you know I was not interested.”
He stops for a second and suddenly the man on the floor says,
“So, you were interested?”
“NO”, I yell back
I look at Hiram and his face is filled with confusion, probably because he has no idea why I am mad at him.
I turn and walk away when I suddenly slam into a man, he holds me to steady me, and I look down to see if I broke a heel and see a gun.
A gun attached to his waist, I turn my head left and see another man with a gun.
I stand properly,
“Are you okay?”, the man asks, and I give my best fake smile.
“yeah, yeah. Thank you so much”
I walk away from them but start spying on them from afar curious as to why there are two people with guns. I discreetly click their photo and send it to the station and text them to send backup immediately. I have this eerie feeling that something bad is going to happen.
Hiram comes up to me to ask me what happened, and why I was so mad at him, but I just dismiss him because I don’t want to lose track of them.
“Luna look at me. what happened”, he asks to my back.
“Nothing Hiram leave me alone”. He gets called by some guy and he walks away.
After few minutes, I see them talking out their gun, in the corner of the dance floor, I try to see who they are pointing it at, because they are going to shoot now. I see the guy I slammed to point his gun and I follow his gun direction and see James.
Oh no they are here to kill James, I start to rush towards James, when suddenly I see the other turn their gun towards…………..Hiram.
NO NO NO. NOT HIRAM. I pull out my phone and see that it is going to atleast take five more minutes for backup to come here. My mind blurs and I run towards Hiram.
He sees me coming and smiles and then when he sees tears, he looks a little confused. I run towards him and hug him.
“Could resist me huh Luna”
Before I can say anything there is a loud gunshot and I take the shot for Hiram, and everything starts to blackout.
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